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A Fake News story was posted online, getting people upset. How it is proven to be fake news is given away in the text of the article posted online. Since we get enough fake news from the lamestream media, getting to the heart of this bit of trash news was a duty, as much as anything else.<\/p>\n
Antifa invading farms in southern Illinois near Sparta? They were going to shoot farmers and livestock? There are two livestock producers than run beef and a brother\/sister team running hogs for pork production, but that’s about it. I doubt that the Antifas even know what farmers look like.<\/p>\n
Sparta, IL, is a place where competitors meet for an annual World Competition in trap and skeet shooting. Lots of people. Did anyone consult with Farmer Leonidas before announcing this plan?<\/p>\n
This is the link to the article from Mike Adams:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/trump.news\/2020-06-03-antifa-terrorists-sparta-illinois-burn-farmhouses-kill-livestock.html<\/a><\/p>\n I sent it to AW1Ed. Did due diligence in a hunt for another source on it.\u00a0 Four hours later, there is no source for it other than the original at the link from some wanker who writes stuff for a rabble rouser blog called Natural News<\/em>.<\/p>\n I have looked and looked for something besides gossip to back up that story and can find nothing. Everything traces back to “Natural News”, where it originates. There is no resource reference included in the article, just fear mongering that is uncalled for, aimed at a place 60-some miles southeast of St. Louis. There was some rioting, looting and pillaging in St. Louis over the weekend, but it was stopped and the perps arrested, and it occurred on the Missouri side of Ole Man River, but not in East St. Louis<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Illinois DNR trap and skeet shooting range down there is where people go for trap and skeet shooting, and there is an annual competition in the Autumn that draws a large crowd. It is now open for business, as of May 23rd. It is very likely a good source of income for the town of Sparta, especially during the World Trap Shoot competition in the fall.\u00a0 The tourist business alone probably provides business and income to the locals of Sparta, including Farmer Leonidas. To put it in perspective, the EAA Fly-in at Oshkosh, WI, an annual event that has gone on for many years, has been canceled because of the CV19 outbreak. That represents a loss of a bundle of money for Oshkosh and its citizens who have catered every year to the attendees, their friends and the tourists who come to the fly-in. It is a huge loss of income for that town.<\/p>\n I can find nothing about this proposed attack on farmers and livestock other than the original version, which is copied to the trump dot news site, and has no back-up or reference of any kind. And the red barn shown in the photo that accompanies Adams’ article is not the kind of barn you’d house beef cattle or hogs in. Not nearly big enough for 8,000 sows, is it?<\/p>\n The statements by Mike Adams, the author of that alarmist article, are a display of his ignorance of Illinois as a state which does have strict rules on gun ownership, but also has a near-total population of counties that are labeled “gun sanctuary” counties. This is the state where the “gun sanctuary movement” started in the first place. Everyone who likes to hunt does so in the Autumn through the winter and into Spring. His article also makes it clear that he knows little to nothing about agriculture or the township of Sparta, never mind the State of Illinois. If it’s livestock the Antifas are after, as I said above,\u00a0 there are only two farms that produce beef for the market. I found a sister\/brother team that run about 8,000 sows for pork production on their acreages. The rest of the farm production is mostly corn and soybeans.<\/p>\n Sparta is a small town, but it isn’t all that small and considering that it’s quite likely that a good deal of business for the town comes from people who want practice at the shooting range or are showing up for the World Trap Shoot competition, or for hunting in the fall, it’s doubtful that anyone in law enforcement down there is going to deprive the people of their 2nd amendment rights, especially farmers. Anyone who is foolish enough to think that farmers won’t defend their turf or themselves and their families is ignorant about a lot of other things, as well.<\/p>\n The distance from St. Louis to Sparta is nearly 60 miles to the southeast of St. Louis through open farmland. There is one Walmart about 30 miles northwest of Sparta as well as a Walmart in Sparta proper.\u00a0 That’s a long drive to try to spook people who are used to handling guns and who enjoy the benefits of outdoor sports like skeet and trap shooting, quail and pheasant hunting, deer hunting, and in the Spring, fishing in the local ponds.<\/p>\n The first time I read the original article, I noticed the glaring mistakes and discrepancies by Adams while thinking there’s something not right here. I spent four long hours trying find a reference to an original source, and there was NOTHING. In addition, his reference to Chicago controlling gun ownership is a glaring mistake. Big HUGE mistake. Chicago has nothing to do with Sparta, nor does Chicago have anything to do with gun control.<\/p>\n Now I will firmly state that Mike Adams’ article is fake news meant to stir up trouble where there may be none at all.\u00a0\u00a0I have serious doubts that there is any credibility to this story, other than an attempt to stir up trouble.<\/p>\n I did not see anything over the weekend about rioting in East St. Louis, IL, but there was some in St. Louis, MO, across the river, and people were arrested for it.\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/those-arrested-over-two-nights-of-protests-and-unrest-in-st-louis-released-from-jail\/article_6c06a78f-b9f3-59f2-842f-0d6c466e84e5.html<\/a><\/p>\n As a result, as much as I detest spending so much time trying to find a valid source for the “threat” to a small town in southern Illinois and its surrounding community, I would have to judge this to be absolutely fake news<\/strong> designed to stir up more trouble than is already underway.\u00a0 That was the reason I have posted it.<\/p>\n Illinois is the state where the “gun sanctuary state” idea evolved, and it has become a national “thing” now. Almost all 50 states now have gun sanctuary counties, and in many states, local law enforcement have said they will not confiscate guns from legitimate owners of them.<\/p>\n